What magazines were Atari ads in???

[l3ushwig]

Just wanted to know for the next time i go out thrifting.

[+RangerG]

You can find them in early to mid 1980s comic books. Sometimes the back cover is an entire ad in full-color.

[l3ushwig]

Anyone else?

[+Random Terrain]

Different magazines. Old Playboys, women's magazines, TV Guide, science and electronics and game magazines, and stuff like that. If I had the extra money, I'd go out searching for any old (cheap) magazines from the Atari years. I'd even get old Sears and JC Penney catalogs (and any other catalogs that had Atari games in them back then).

 

If you go to scan them in, just remember these two tips and your scans will look pretty good:

 

http://www.randomterrain.com/personal-scanning-tips.html

Edited December 17, 2007 by Random Terrain

[chrisbid]

i was in cub scouts at the time, and boy's life magazine had atari ads (and NES ads later on)

[sku_u]

Old Sears and Radio Shack catalogs sometimes have them. You can also find them in pretty much any magazine from 1978-1984 that dealt with computers and technology if you thumb through enough of them.

[Philflound]

Comic books ran many ads. Mostly Marvel in the 1980s. Since I was putting together a collection of ads I cut from old comics, I knew this well. Just remember that the comic book size is much smaller than any magazines. Most computer/gaming magazines of the time would have probably had some. I think I amassed about 33 or so ads from comic books. Sometimes ads were put back to back on the back cover.

 

Phil

[ATARIPITBULL]

As far as comic books go, I found that most of my ads came from the Fantastic four comics from 1982 - 1985 and the same for the Iron Man comics.

 

[candiru]

I've found a few in old National Geographics.

[Stingray]

Comic books were pretty much the only "magazines" I read in the 70's, but as I remember there were Atari ads in pretty much all of them.

 

-S

[NE146]

If you go to scan them in, just remember these two tips and your scans will look pretty good:

http://www.randomterrain.com/personal/tips.html

 

Funny... I have just been thinking about looking for "scanning tips" this past week. Thanks for the link! (and the link therein)

[Nukey Shay]

Any magazine geared toward kids or electronics would be #1. Anything that deals with current trends or topics also (hence, TV guide and Playboy). National Geographic is a new one to me tho

 

-score-

Pretty much any comic magazine that offered ads.

Pretty much any magazine that dealt with electronics or computers.

ALL magazines devoted to gaming.

Quite a number of magazines that just had wide distribution.

[+kisrael]

"GAMES" magazine had some great review clusters...man I read this one issue (the one with "the Hemlock Kissoff" over and over and over)

 

Re: scanning tips...you mention the "screen" problem...I scanned in a New Yorker cartoon and it looked *awful*, but then I realized that was just the "extra screen" effect of having the scan zoomed out.